Elemental Shaman DPS Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.1.0)
On this page, you will find the best gear and best in slot items for your Elemental Shaman in World of Warcraft The War Within (11.1.0).
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Elemental Shaman gear and best in slot.
- 9. Best Trinkets for Elemental Shaman in The War Within Season 2
- 10. The Great Vault
- 11. Best Gear Crest Upgrades for Elemental Shaman
- 12. What to Craft as an Elemental Shaman in The War Within?
- 13. Best Embellishments for Elemental Shaman
- 14. Best Weapons for Elemental Shaman
- 15. Best Jewelry for Elemental Shaman
- 16. Best Professions for Elemental Shaman
Gearing an Elemental Shaman
Welcome to our Gearing Page for Elemental Shaman. This section will cover everything you need to know about equipping your character correctly.
If you have a new piece of gear for which you need gems and enchant advice, you can find everything on our dedicated page below.
The Importance of "Simming Yourself"
At this stage in the game, there are so many variables and layers of optimization that you can apply to your character that there is no way for a guide or anything else to tell you exactly what gear you should wear. This is why we always recommend simulating your own character using Raidbots. The website can help you choose set bonuses, trinkets, and combinations in a way tailored completely to your specific character. Learning to use this tool is essential to maximizing your potential, as there is simply no other way to consider all the variables.
Evaluating Upgrades
The easiest way, and also the method we suggest, to compare multiple items is to use Raidbots' Top Gear. Here, you can input an export from the Simcraft AddOn, select the items to compare, and it will find out which of the items are best.
Stats
Many people overthink the distribution of their secondary stats. An important thing to remember is that a higher quantity of stats is nearly always better than a better quality of stats. Because of this, wearing higher item-level gear with worse stats tends to be better than lower item-level gear with great stats. Keep this in mind when considering gear. For more stats information, please refer to our dedicated page.
Disclaimer Regarding BiS Lists
We only provide "Best in Slot" lists as a mandatory requirement stemming from certain guilds and players thinking they absolutely need to mindlessly chase that one item in that one slot and nothing else will do. Sometimes, raid leaders enforce a very strict "BiS list" for loot council without any nuance; other times, it is players themselves enforcing it on themselves.
BiS Gear for Elemental Shaman
Overall BiS List for Elemental Shaman
This list contains items available from the raid, mythic+ as well as crafted items.
| Slot | Item | Source/Note |
|---|---|---|
| Two-Handed Weapon |  Best-in-Slots |
One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine |
| One-Handed Weapon |  Big Earner's Bludgeon |
Mug'Zee in Liberation of Undermine |
| Shield |  Titan of Industry |
Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine |
| Helm |  Gale Sovereign's Charged Hood |
Revival Catalyst, or One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine |
| Neck |  Semi-Charmed Amulet |
Rik Reverb in Liberation of Undermine |
| Shoulder |  Gale Sovereign's Zephyrs |
Revival Catalyst, or Rik Reverb in Liberation of Undermine |
| Cloak |  Consecrated Cloak with Haste and Versatility, with  Duskthread Lining |
Crafted Embellished Item with Tailoring |
| Cloak alternative |  Test Pilot's Go-Pack (Very Rare) |
Sprocketmonger Lockenstock in Liberation of Undermine |
| Chest |  Gale Sovereign's Clouded Hauberk |
Revival Catalyst, or Sprocketmonger Lockenstock in Liberation of Undermine |
| Bracers |  Glyph-Etched Vambraces with Mastery and Haste, with Duskthread Lining |
Crafted Embellished Item with Leatherworking |
| Bracers alternative |  Made Manacles |
Mug'Zee in Liberation of Undermine |
| Gloves |  Gale Sovereign's Grasps |
Revival Catalyst, or Cauldron of Carnage in Liberation of Undermine |
| Belt |  Sash of the Fierce Diva |
Rik Reverb in Liberation of Undermine |
| Legs |  Chemical Blaster's Legguards |
The MOTHERLODE!! |
| Boots |  Regal Mekanospurs |
Operation: Mechagon |
| Ring #1 |  The Jastor Diamond (Very Rare) |
Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine |
| Ring #2 |  Cyrce's Circlet |
Siren Isle |
| Ring alternative |  Miniature Roulette Wheel with Haste and Mastery |
One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine |
| Ring alternative |  Footbomb Championship Ring |
The MOTHERLODE!! |
| Trinket #1 |  Eye of Kezan |
Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine |
| Trinket #2 |  House of Cards |
One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine |
| Trinket alternative |  Geargrinder's Spare Keys |
Vexie Fullthrottle in Liberation of Undermine |
Raid only BiS List for Elemental Shaman
This list contains ONLY items from the Undermine raid.
| Slot | Item | Source/Note |
|---|---|---|
| Weapon | Best-in-Slots |
One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine |
| One-Handed Weapon | Big Earner's Bludgeon |
Mug'Zee in Liberation of Undermine |
| Shield | Titan of Industry |
Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine |
| Helm | Gale Sovereign's Charged Hood |
Revival Catalyst, or One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine |
| Neck | Semi-Charmed Amulet |
Rik Reverb in Liberation of Undermine |
| Shoulder | Gale Sovereign's Zephyrs |
Revival Catalyst, or Rik Reverb in Liberation of Undermine |
| Cloak | Test Pilot's Go-Pack (Very Rare) |
Sprocketmonger Lockenstock in Liberation of Undermine |
| Chest | Gale Sovereign's Clouded Hauberk |
Revival Catalyst, or Sprocketmonger Lockenstock in Liberation of Undermine |
| Bracers | Made Manacles |
Mug'Zee in Liberation of Undermine |
| Gloves | Gale Sovereign's Grasps |
Revival Catalyst, or Cauldron of Carnage in Liberation of Undermine |
| Belt | Sash of the Fierce Diva |
Rik Reverb in Liberation of Undermine |
| Legs |  Deep-Pocketed Pantaloons |
Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine |
| Boots |  Dubious Table-Runners |
One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine |
| Ring #1 | The Jastor Diamond (Very Rare) |
Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine |
| Ring #2 | Miniature Roulette Wheel with Haste and Mastery |
One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine |
| Trinket #1 | Eye of Kezan |
Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine |
| Trinket #2 | House of Cards |
One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine |
| Trinket alternative | Geargrinder's Spare Keys |
Vexie Fullthrottle in Liberation of Undermine |
Mythic+ only BiS List for Elemental Shaman
This list contains ONLY items available in Mythic+ dungeons in Season 1.
The main focus of this list is targetting Haste and Mastery pieces. It is not meant as an "equip all these items together" list. You still need to get some Versatility and a little Critical Strike after that.
| Slot | Item | Source/Note |
|---|---|---|
| Weapon |  Neural Synapse Enhancer |
Operation: Mechagon |
| Helm |  Amphitheater Stalker's Hood |
Theater of Pain |
| Neck |  Strapped Rescue-Keg |
Cinderbrew Meadery |
| Shoulder |  Amice of Oblivion |
The Rookery |
| Cloak |  Electrician's Siphoning Filter |
Operation: Floodgate |
| Chest |  Bront's Singed Blastcoat |
Operation: Floodgate |
| Bracers |  Consecrated Baron's Bindings |
Priory of the Sacred Flame |
| Gloves |  Holybound Grips |
Priory of the Sacred Flame |
| Belt |  Shalebiter Interlinked Chain |
The MOTHERLODE!! |
| Legs | Chemical Blaster's Legguards |
The MOTHERLODE!! |
| Boots | Regal Mekanospurs |
Operation: Mechagon |
| Ring #1 | Footbomb Championship Ring |
The MOTHERLODE!! |
| Ring #2 |  Wick's Golden Loop |
Darkflame Cleft |
| Trinket #1 |  Soulletting Ruby |
Theater of Pain |
| Trinket #2 |  Signet of the Priory |
Priory of the Sacred Flame |
Static Best in Slot lists are only an indicative tool in a vacuum; we recommend using the following tools: Raidbots Top Gear and its Droptimizer options.
Tier Set for Elemental Shaman
The Elemental Tier Set is solid, with the 2-piece bonus which being worth roughly 6% damage compared to base stats (assuming you use our recommended builds), with the 4-piece bonus being worth around 4%.
As things stand, you should get the new 2-piece bonus as soon as possible, but do not switch to the 4-piece bonus until you obtain Mythic itemlevel pieces, as our previous 2-piece bonus is stronger.
Shaman Elemental 11.1 Class Set 2pc- Shaman Elemental 11.1 Class Set 4pc
2-piece: Your spells and abilities have a chance to hit a Jackpot that summons a 
Fire Elemental
or 
Storm Elemental for 8.0 sec. Casting 
Ascendance always hits a Jackpot.
Two important notes regarding this bonus: it summons the elemental that
you chose in your talent tree. If you are talented into Storm Elemental,
it will never summon a Fire Elemental. Secondly, Proccing 
Deeply Rooted Elements
does NOT count as "Casting Ascendance", meaning it will NOT proc the bonus.
This is a good bonus that synergizes well with multiple talents we use : 
Elemental Unity,
Everlasting Elements, 
Echo of the Elementals and 
Primal Elementalist. The
big downside is that using this last talent mean we cannot really use Earth Elemental much,
though we do get good uptime on 
Primordial Bond (slightly above 50%) to make up for it a little.
4-piece: When you summon or extend your Fire Elemental/ Storm Elemental, your 
Lightning Bolt, 
Chain Lightning,
and 
Lava Burst deal 30% increased damage for 8 sec.
While this seems like a strong bonus, unfortunately we do cast a lot of spells
nowadays, and in practice you'll typically only cast 2 or 3, occasionally 4 of those spells
within that window. While this can coincide with procs or things like 
Stormkeeper, it
is generally only an okay bonus.
Cyrce's Circlet for Elemental Shaman
Cyrce's Circlet is a ring introduced in Patch 11.0.7 that you can
acquire by completing several activities on Siren Isle. The ring has
three sockets, which can fit a different kind of gem each. There are four different
gems available for each of the three sockets, for a total of 12 gems, so there
is quite a bit of choice on what to socket.
Cyrce's Circlet is currently Best in Slot and comes out roughly
equal to good Mythic tier rings.
These are generally considered to be the best gems, but it is highly recommended to sim yourself to figure out the best choices and combinations for your specific gear and the specific gems and other rings you already own:
For all content, you will likely want to run most of the secondary stats gems:
Stormbringer's Runed Citrine
Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine
Legendary Skipper's Citrine
Note that this setup will give you a massive amount of Mastery, and it may well be too much Mastery, so adjust accordingly.
For more information on how to get the ring, as well as acquiring all of the different gems that you can possibly socket into it, check out our Cyrce's Circlet guide below!
Best Trinkets for Elemental Shaman in The War Within Season 2
Note that 
Synergistic Brewterializer is "Simbait". Barrels need to be specifically targeted
and hit by an ability in order to explode, which means that you have to hit them with a
Chain Lightning targeting the barrel, or another ability like 
Frost Shock.
Simulationcraft erroneously thinks it is "free" damage instead.
This means if you REALLY want to use this trinket, which will still in practice be MUCH worse than
sims indicate, you will in practice need to use a macro and replace your regular (without Stormkeeper!!)
Lightning Bolt in single-target with a Chain Lightning:
- #showtooltip Synergistic Brewterializer
- /cleartarget
- /targetexact Backfill Barrel
- /cast Chain Lightning
- /targetlasttarget
Raiding Trinket Tier List for Elemental Shaman
This Trinket Tier List is single-target biased, as this tends to be the most important aspect of Raiding. When Trinkets are equal on single-target, I will "break the tie" by looking into which Trinket performs better in AoE/mixed scenarios.
Spymaster Tier
Spymaster's Web — Even nerfed remains very powerful for its itemlevel.
You will only think about replacing it around 658/665 with A+/S tier trinklets.
S-Tier
House of Cards — Great stats and the on use works extremely well with 
Ascendance,
though less so if you use 
First Ascendant — Gets stronger later in the fight
Eye of Kezan — is a little like a Passive Spymaster, flat Mastery and slow Int stacks,
but instead of spending it for ridiculous Int, you get damage procs after reaching maximum stacks.
It does take a long time to stack up, so while it is fantastic on very long fights, it is
not so much on shorter fights.
Mug's Moxie Jug — Critical Strike is not great but this gives a lot of it,
and if you try and hold some spenders for the tail end of the buff, that can be strong indeed.
A+-Tier
Suspicious Energy Drink — A strong Delve trinket? Well then. While you
are unlikely to get the Low Health bonus for long, this procs often enough to be very good.
Carved Blazikon Wax — solid stats but trying to gain the full benefit can be annoying
if only as a distraction.
A-Tier
Reverb Radio — the doubled bonus is unreliable and the overall Haste
this gives is just alright, and it gives little on opening burst.
Signet of the Priory — A strong effect, although the cooldown is
suited to First Ascendant users which can be good or bad.
Funhouse Lens — lines up very well with regular Ascendance
and gives a strong effect for its duration, although it is unfortunate that it can give
one of two stats randomly.
Turbo-Drain 5000 — good damage type, frequent procs and fairly quick damage,
and if you kill off an add with the effect you get a strong Movement Speed buff. Cool!
Candle Confidant — can proc one of three different pets of various
reliability and strength, making it pretty good on average in single-target but not
so much in more complex situations, and unreliable to boot.
Geargrinder's Spare Keys — A ton of instant damage. Easy to use, excellent
to get rid of priority targets, and good in general.
Soulletting Ruby — The slow is potentially interesting but the healing
is largely irrelevant, Critical Strike is bad but this gives a lot of it overall, starting
fairly low (less than half the advertised value) on full Health targets. Strong even though
the cooldown is only good if using First Ascendant.
Gigazap's Zap-Cap — The effect is mainly effective when facing
only two targets, which is not ideal.
B-Tier
Mister Lock-N-Stalk — The proc itself does solid damage but it can
be wasted on adds and is mediocre outside of pure single-target.
Entropic Skardyn Core — Critical Strike is not great and the added
requirement for the (strong) effect can be problematic.
Sigil of Algari Concordance — the effect does good damage when it
works properly but is a bit unreliable
C-Tier
Flarendo's Pilot Light — Extremely strong on use effect though does
little outside of it. Better with First Ascendant. Bump a tier or two if
there are infrequent crucial priority targets.
Ratfang Toxin — Mediocre payoff but at least it is reliable enough.
Noggenfogger Ultimate Deluxe — Terrible stat, not the best cooldown timing,
but does a lot of damage still. Bump a couple tiers if there are infrequent priority adds.
Blastmaster3000 — functional but the damage is just really low. Also, did
not actually work on PTR.
Garbagemancer's Last Resort — Like Geargrinder but strictly worse, and
massively so outside of pure Patchwerk DPS.
Synergistic Brewterializer — the effect is just nowhere near as powerful as
it would need to be. Careful, because you need to use a GCD targetting the barrel
and Simulationcraft is not doing that, this trinket is "Simbait"
Bashful Book — The effect is slow, the damage type mediocre and
it just does too little damage.
Remnant of Darkness — very unreliable and even if things line up
perfectly the payoff is bad.
Ingenious Mana Battery — Gets pretty good after a few minutes in combat, but
that is just too late.
Algari Alchemist Stone — simply to weak and not worth the opportunity cost.
F-Tier
Amorphous Relic — cute but the effects are pathetically weak.
Mythic+ Trinket Tier List for Elemental Shaman
This Trinket Tier List is AoE-biased for Mythic+, as this tends to be the most important aspect of Mythic+.
Spymaster Tier
Spymaster's Web — Even nerfed remains very powerful for its itemelevel.
You will only think about replacing it around 658/665 with A+/S tier trinklets.
S-Tier
- Mug's Moxie Jug — Critical Strike is not great but this gives a lot of it,
and if you try and hold some spenders for the tail end of the buff, that can be strong indeed.
- Funhouse Lens — lines up very well with regular Ascendance
and gives a strong effect for its duration, although it is unfortunate that it can give
one of two stats randomly.
- House of Cards — Great stats and the on use works extremely well with Ascendance,
though less so if you use First Ascendant — Gets stronger later in the fight
A+-Tier
- Suspicious Energy Drink — A strong Delve trinket? Well then. While you
are unlikely to get the Low Health bonus for long, this procs often enough to be very good.
- Carved Blazikon Wax — solid stats but gaining full benefit can be annoying
if only as a distraction.
A-Tier
- Soulletting Ruby — Critical Strike is bad but this gives a lot of it overall, starting
fairly low (less than half the advertised value) on full Health targets. Strong even though
the cooldown is only good if using First Ascendant.
- Signet of the Priory — A strong effect, although the cooldown is
suited to First Ascendant users which can be good or bad.
- Geargrinder's Spare Keys — A ton of instant damage. Easy to use, excellent
to get rid of priority targets, and strong in general.
- Flarendo's Pilot Light — Very strong on use effect though does
little outside of it. Better with First Ascendant.
- Reverb Radio — the doubled bonus is unreliable and the overall Haste
this gives is just alright, and it gives little on opening burst.
- Gigazap's Zap-Cap — The effect is mainly effective when facing
only two targets, which is not ideal, but is still solid.
B-Tier
- Mister Lock-N-Stalk — The proc itself does solid damage, not sure what is the point
of the alternate mode as it is split damage.
- Entropic Skardyn Core — Critical Strike is not great and the added
requirement for the (strong) effect can be problematic.
- Turbo-Drain 5000 — good damage type, frequent procs and fairly quick damage,
and if you kill off an add with the effect you get a strong Movement Speed buff. Cool!
- Candle Confidant — can proc one of three different pets of various
reliability and strength, making it pretty good on average in single-target but not
so much in more complex situations, and unreliable to boot.
- Noggenfogger Ultimate Deluxe — Terrible stat, not the best cooldown timing,
but does a lot of damage still.
C-Tier
- Eye of Kezan — Does not work very well if there is combat downtime, although
it gets better the higher keys you do, and is actually very good if there is almost
no combat downtime, going back up to A+.
- Sigil of Algari Concordance — the effect does good damage when it
works properly but is a bit unreliable.
- Synergistic Brewterializer — (he effect is just nowhere near as powerful as
it would need to be. Generally considered "Simbait".
D-Tier
- Ratfang Toxin — Mediocre payoff but at least it is reliable enough.
- Garbagemancer's Last Resort — Like Geargrinder but strictly worse, and
massively so outside of pure Patchwerk DPS.
- Algari Alchemist Stone — simply to weak and not worth the opportunity cost.
- Bashful Book — The effect is slow and the damage type mediocre and
it simply does too little damage.
- Blastmaster3000 — functional but the damage is just really low. Also, did
not actually work on PTR.
- Ingenious Mana Battery — Gets pretty good after a few minutes in combat, but
that is just too late.
- Remnant of Darkness — very unreliable and even if things line up
perfectly the payoff is not that great.
F-Tier
- Amorphous Relic — cute but the effects are pathetically weak.
The Great Vault
This weekly loot system remains much the same. You can select ONE item out of a maximum pool of 9, depending on how many raid bosses you defeated, your Dungeon clears and how many Delves and Weekly World Quest you accomplished in the previous week.
You can learn more about this system on our dedicated Great Vault page.
Best Gear Crest Upgrades for Elemental Shaman
You will be able to upgrade your items via Crests such as
Gilded Undermine Crest. Once you have upgraded a slot to a certain item
level, upgrading other items of that slot to that item level is free.
When you upgrade with Crests, you should think of it as upgrading slots and not items.
Additionally, since Crests are a limited resource, you will want to obtain the highest item-level possible before upgrading a given slot, as this means you will spend fewer Crests on that slot in total. If you are at all capable of doing a +9 Dungeon, for example, it would be a VERY bad idea to upgrade an item from a +8 Dungeon, as those are wasted Crests you may not get back for a very long time.
We see a ton of players, even at a high level, mess up their upgrade priorities, and upgrading prematurely. Getting this right will put you far ahead of most players.
Below is the slot priority you should upgrade your items in. If you ever want to deviate from this, you should have a very good reason.
- Weapons
- Trinkets
- Helm/Chest/Legs
- Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots
- Rings and Necks
- Cloaks and Bracers
Note that exceptions are possible, such as special items that have more Item Level scaling than their slot would imply.
Best Items to Upgrade for Elemental Shaman in The War Within
Unsurprisingly, you should sim your character to determine which upgrades give the most bang for your buck at any point in time. Beyond that, you generally want to maximize your weapon, then your trinkets, then whatever slot is your worst, and after that, it is generally best to upgrade the slots that give the most stats, with a lower priority on whatever has the best secondaries but maximizing Intellect remains the best way to gain DPS.
What to Craft as an Elemental Shaman in The War Within?
What you should craft in our opinion largely depends on what items you obtain, what items you will likely have available to you from various content, if you will get priority on certain items, and generally whether you want to optimize for the short or medium term. Take our advice with a grain of salt and adapt to your particular circumstances.
Until you can get an actual Mythic weapon, we recommend you immediately craft
a 
Vagabond's Bounding Baton with Haste, Mastery, and
Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension, as well as any item with a 
Writhing Armor Banding
to complement it, typically a Consecrated Cloak or Glyph-Etched Vambraces.
Note that if you are focused on Mythic+, you may want to use a shield, and craft
an 
Everforged Dagger or a 
Charged Runeaxe instead.
Best Embellishments for Elemental Shaman
Embellishments are significantly weaker in The War Within compared to Dragonflight. As long as you get "something", it makes only a small difference what embellishment you get, so especially early on I would recommend against expensive ones.
Our current generic recommendation is Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension
on your Vagabond's Bounding Baton as well as a Writhing Armor Banding
to complement it, typically a Consecrated Cloak or Glyph-Etched Vambraces.
Note that Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension takes a long time
to stack and drops entirely if you spend more than a few seconds out of combat.
Alternatively, when you get a non-crafted Mythic weapon, you will want to get a
couple of Duskthread Lining. 
Elemental Focusing Lens are technically
a tiny little more single-target damage but are much worse in AoE and lack the defensive benefit.
Best Weapons for Elemental Shaman
One-Armed Bandit drops Best-in-Slots. A provocative name for a very
strong weapon indeed, that is in fact Best in Slot for us, and likely for almost everyone
able to equip it. It is also very rare, so competition will be fierce! Do not count
on getting it.
Big Earner's Bludgeon and Titan of Industry are special weapons
with a bonus effect that is non-trivial in single-target and this combo is Best in Slot
for those wanting to use a One-handed weapon + Shield and competitive in single-target.
Until you can get an actual Mythic weapon, especially the one above, we highly
recommend you immediately craft a Vagabond's Bounding Baton with Haste, Mastery, and
Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension, as well as any item with a Writhing Armor Banding
to complement it, typically a Consecrated Cloak or Glyph-Etched Vambraces.
Best Jewelry for Elemental Shaman
The new The Jastor Diamond is a very rare item from Chrome King Gallywix,
and has what are usually very desirable stats on top of a significant bonus effect.
It is best in slot, but do not expect to get it.
Best Professions for Elemental Shaman
While professions do not generally give player power, there are possible exceptions in some circumstances. Suppose you want to min/max your player power in all possible situations. In that case, you should be an Alchemist and an Engineer. Note that the actual uses of their unique bonuses are highly conditional and, for the most part, should not dictate your profession choice.
Changelog
- 18 Mar. 2025: Updated Brewterializer macro to be more reliable.
- 07 Mar. 2025: Updated Cyrce's Circlet information, added tier set upgrade recommendation.
- 28 Feb. 2025: Adjusted trinket rankings.
- 27 Feb. 2025: Added One-handed weapon and Shield options. Added more information regarding Synergistic Brewterializer.
- 25 Feb. 2025: Adjusted Trinket ranking. Added Catalyst as a source for Tier pieces.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.0.
- 20 Feb. 2024: Fully updated for Patch 11.1 and Season 2.
- 17 Dec. 2024: Updated section on Cyrcle's Circlet, added it to all BiS lists.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Added a section on Cyrce's Circlet and added it to BiS list.
- 26 Oct. 2024: Emphasized how important having ANY Spymaster's Web trinket is.
- 25 Oct. 2024: Fully updated Mythic+ only BiS list. Added more alternatives.
- 23 Oct. 2024: Updated Unbound Changeling recommendation to use different stats. Added Treacherous Transmitter to S tier for people without Spymaster's Web. Added a warning on using Gale of Shadows without Primordial Wave.
- 22 Oct. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- 01 Oct. 2024: Added neck, ring and weapon embellishment alternatives on the overall BiS list.
- 16 Sep. 2024: Added more detailed information on crafting and embellishments. Adjusted trinket recommendations, added more trinkets. Adjusted Mythic+ only Shoulder recommendation.
- 13 Sep. 2024: Removed Pre-Season BiS list.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reorganized the page, added 3 different BiS lists, updated for The War Within Season 1, adjusted embellishment recommendations.
- 30 Aug. 2024: Adjusted BiS list to clarify stats on Helm and that Sacbrood is our best trinket. Adjusted trinket and embellishment recommendations.
- 28 Aug. 2024: Updated embellishment and trinket recommendations.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within's Pre-Season.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within pre-patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 30 Apr. 2024: Adjusted trinket recommendations.
- 29 Apr. 2024: Added Vakash to Bullion section.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Added a section on Antiquated Bronze Bullions, updated all BiS sections, Tier Set, Crafting, Gear Upgrade, Weapons, Trinkets, Jewelry and Embellishment sections.
- 17 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 25 Nov. 2023: Put Legguards of Sansok Khan in overall BiS. Adjusted Trinket recommendations, added disclaimer regarding Balefire Branch. Reworded Lariat's description, fixed Mythic+ BiS list origins and removed a couple items that are not in the season 3 version of the dungeon.
- 22 Nov. 2023: Added Witherrot Tome to embellishment recommendation.
- 11 Nov. 2023: Adjusted general trinket recommendations. Adjustments to embellishment recommendations.
- 07 Nov. 2023: Fixed bis, crafting and embellishment recommendation after Sporecloak got nerfed into oblivion.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Removed Dawn of the Infinite and Onyx annulet sections, added an additional paragraph regarding secondary stats, added a section on crafting priority, overhauled embellishment section, updated all BiS lists for 10.2 and added an additional disclaimer, updated weapon, jewelry and trinket sections for 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Removed Cataclysm Timewalking section, added BiS gear lists, added Bloodmallet trinket sims.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Added Dawn of the Infinite section, and added relevant items to the Weapons/Trinkets sections. Removed a warning about trinket hotfixes.
- 24 May 2023: Fixed a couple BiS weapon recommendation, added temporary recommendation for Timewalking trinkets, updated some trinket rankings.
- 09 May 2023: Fixed swapped out ring descriptions, added a reminder about Alchemical Flavor Pocket, updated trinket list to reflect recent changes
- 06 May 2023: Updated recommended weapons and trinkets following the latest changes. Removed outdated paragraph on the Eranog ring. Updated Onyx annulet section to recommend it for fresh characters.
- 02 May 2023: Updated recommended embellishments and trinkets, added recommendation on what to craft first, updated which tier piece to skip.
- 01 May 2023: Updated section about Onyx Annulets and added information on its viability in Season 2, added a section on Gear Upgrades in Season 2, updated the recommended trinkets and weapons list and the jewelry and embellishment sections. Updated the Tier Set Section with the T30 set.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Added a section about Onyx Annulets.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Updated trinket section, updated info on Voidmender's Shadowgem.
- 29 Dec. 2022: Updated embellishment section.
- 21 Dec. 2022: Updated trinket & jewelry sections.
- 13 Dec. 2022: Added a couple trinkets to the trinket section, updated the section about Elemental Lariat.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1 launch.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Stormy, Elemental main since Wrath of the Lich King and member of the Storm, Earth and Lava Elemental theorycrafting team.
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